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• Project Apollo

  

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  1961

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  End date:

  1975

  The Apollo Program was a NASA spaceflight endeavor that landed the first humans on Earth's moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for a manned...

• Apollo 4

  

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  Start date:

  Nov 9, 1967

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  Nov 9, 1967

  Apollo 4 was the first flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, carrying no crew. It was also the first flight of the S-IC and S-II stages of the rocket. This was the first flight of the Saturn V, the largest launch vehicle ever to fly successfully....

• Apollo 6

  

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  Apr 4, 1968

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  Apr 4, 1968

  Apollo 6, launched on April 4, 1968, was the Apollo program's second and last unmanned test flight of its Saturn V launch vehicle. While the vehicle experienced a number of significant malfunctions, the flight nonetheless provided NASA with enough...

• AS-201

  

  AS-201 (or SA-201) was the first flight of the Saturn IB launch vehicle. This was not only the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket but the first real flight of a production Command and Service Module (CSM-009). It was a Block I version though,...

• AS-203

  

  AS-203 (or SA-203) was an unmanned flight Saturn IB launch vehicle. It is sometimes informally called Apollo 2. The main purpose of the AS-203 flight was to investigate the effects of weightlessness on the fuel in the S-IVB tank. The reason for this...

• AS-202

  

  AS-202 (or SA-202) was a sub-orbital test flight of the Saturn IB and Command and Service Module. It is sometimes informally called Apollo 3. AS-202 was the second test flight of the Saturn IB. It was designed to test the rocket more than had been...

• SA-1

  

  SA-1 was the first flight of a Saturn I launch vehicle and was part of the Apollo program. This was the first flight of the Saturn I booster, the first in the Saturn family, and a huge increase in size and power over anything launched before it. It...

• SA-2

  

  SA-2 was the second flight Saturn I launch vehicle, the first flight of Project Highwater and was part of the Apollo Program. The objectives of SA-2 were much the same as those of SA-1. But in addition to testing the rockets structurally and the new...

• SA-3

  

  SA-3 (Apollo) was the third flight Saturn I launch vehicle, the second flight of Project Highwater and was part of the Apollo Program. SA-3 continued the testing regime that had started with SA-1. Each mission had a slight difference from the last,...

• SA-5

  

  SA-5 was the first launch of the Block II Saturn I rocket and was part of the Apollo Program. The major changes that occurred on SA-5 were that for the first time the Saturn I would fly with two stages - the S-I first stage and the S-IV second stage...

• Pad Abort Test-1

  

  Pad Abort Test 1 was the first abort test of the Apollo spacecraft on November 7, 1963. Pad Abort Test 1 was a mission to investigate the effects on the Apollo spacecraft during an abort from the pad. The launch escape system (LES) had to be capable...

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